Best rope devices for slackliners and Highliners in 2021
Best Rope devices used for highlining and slacklining
These are the best rope devices for slackliners and highliners originally designed for other sports and industries such as mountain rescue and rock climbing. These devices can be used in conjunction with one of the oval carabiners or steel shackles in our online slackline shop.
Assisted braking belay devices
Assisted braking belay devices are great for pulley system progress capturing, hauling gear with ropes and abseiling.
There are many different types on the market these days. We recommend the following ones for slackliners and highliners.
Petzl Grigri belay device
Edelrid Eddy belay device
Mad Rock Safeguard
Pulleys for tensioning systems and taglines
Pulleys always come in handy as multipliers and redirects when rigging highlines. They work great for multiplier systems for your tagline.
Most taglines are between 2,5mm – 5mm diameter sheathed polyester accessory cord which work great with the following devices:
Petzl fixe
Petzl partner
Petzl rescue
Petzl Oscillante
Rock Exotica
SMC CRx
Progress capture devices for highline taglines
If you’re already using a pulley to haul your highline tagline you need something to capture your progress as your go along. One option is using a prusik to capture your progress, otherwise you can get a progress capture device such as the following ones, the Cape Town highline crew uses a Petzl micro traxion for hauling taglines in Cape Town but any of the following devices should work great.
Most of these companies recommend ropes from 5mm-7mm and up but many slackliners have used them to varying degrees with double wraps as well as just letting it assist in breaking.
Petzl Micro Traxion
Edelrid Spoc Oasis
Petzl nano traxion
Best Rope Ascenders for slacklining and highlining
Anyone who has had to pull highline taglines over 150m knows that it can get very old very quickly. Rope ascenders are the perfect tool for the job. Here are a few good options to make your next highline rig a little bit more efficient and enjoyable.
These ascenders are also great for tensioning longlines in the park with pulley systems.
Petzl Gold Ascender
Black Diamond Ascender
We believe these are the best rope devices for slackliners and highliners, please let us know if we missed any of your favourite devices
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